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Code Pink voice: Listen the fact is that the Caribbean is part of the U.S. sphere of influence and has been for over a century. Maduro needs to negotiate with Trump to find a solution that respects valid American security concerns .

The many monarchs of Europe, the slaver's Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Nazis, the Italian fascists, Imperial Japan and many more all assumed that because liberals value peace and human life, that they were weak and feckless and easily beaten.

Go look for them now.

I am the last guy you will see defending police militarization, SWAT teams have become much too prevalent and get far too many resources that they inevitably squander and breed the worst possible mindset for policing. But good tactics are good tactics regardless of origin and you can't abolish SWAT.

Lots of SOF raids during GWOT and after (especially from 2007 on) were call-outs and standoffs; the 2022 hit on Baghdadi's replacement was one such standoff. The fundamentals of room clearing don't change if you're a cop instead of a soldier, the same tactics apply regardless.

It isn't possible to keep that pace with dick flaps and shoulder covers and whatnot. It's also worth noting that the countries that tend towards heavy armor and clearing from the threshold tend to have much thicker walls that actually stop small arms, while US houses are pretty much all concealment

Sometimes you'll see concessions to safety, like sweeping rooms from the outside before entry, but even then the focus is on moving as fast as possible to keep the initiative and prevent defenders from entrenching, and if things slow down you get the initiative back with dogs/flashbangs/charges/etc

Partially because SOF were doing long foot patrols to their targets across rough terrain to avoid helicopters giving away their location, but mostly because US room clearing philosophy emphasizes speed over protection — “sometimes you gotta man up and eat some rounds” is only a semi-ironic slogan.

One only has to look at the present protests in Portland to understand how badly they got broken up. “2020 was Black Bloc Tet” is only inaccurate because there was no PAVN equivalent waiting in the wings to take over afterwards.

i am sorry if you think it's "icky" that america is a superpower. we're gonna go on being a superpower whether you feel good about it or not. as they say, with great power comes great responsibility. the question is how well we discharge that responsibility.

Probably a bad sign the original OSINT nerds are posting satellite imagery of the White House for BDA

Absolutely!

Very effectively refuting the Nazi allegations by covering up a totenkopf with a…Nordic wolf and valknut.

NCPC should force trump to spend the next 4 years next to a giant pile of rubble where the East Wing used to be tbh

Even if their source is outright lying, Platner had one of the most recognizable SS symbols tattooed on him while serving in a branch with a notorious Nazi problem and never bothered to get it removed or covered up. There is no innocent explanation.

There’s absolutely no fucking way to excuse this, time for the guy to pack it in

Update: look, this is a iterative process,

also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity

>millions in the streets supporting liberalism

>>russian armored assaults being obliterated in front of Pokrovsk

>>>PLA being purged again

We have friends everywhere.

Amending one of my previous statements: No Kings except for that guy at my local protest who had a McGovern ‘72 poster labeled WHAT WOULD GEORGE DO

"Protest theater is the left wing cult of the operator," example #42069

as I keep saying, if you were actually living under this level of threat imagined by some posters - and you may yet! - you wouldn't be posting on bluesky.

Funnily enough the StG44 is also a great example of this because the Nazis kept developing follow-on designs in pursuit of graft money even as their small arms industry was in shambles and actually produced StG 44s were so shoddy you could render them inoperable after a hard fall bent the receiver

The question IMO isn't "does regime change work". It will if you do it right (and as Iraq shows, even if you do it *really* wrong). The question is whether the inevitable butcher's bill is worth it, because it *will* cause untold death and suffering no matter what, all the more so if you fuck it up.

The goals for post-Saddam Iraq were more or less

1. Democratic and at least semi-stable
2. US-aligned
3. Not fucking with the GCC nations

Despite legendary fuckups, we got all three! You still have IS-Central to deal with but they're largely contained, as is the Iranian side of the PMF.

The thing about OIF is that it was genuine regime change and it *did* fucking work. It was sold on lies and post-9/11 bloodlust and executed brutishly and incompetently by Bush and Obama, but well, look at the state of Iraq today and tell me that it's not at all what the neocons envisioned.

yes the market is saturated with GOGO Dancers, but that's why I'm gonna make bank as the country's first GOCO Dancer

Anyways I sure hope they fixed the IVAS issues of battery life, NV framerate and resolution, and needing to wear sunglasses at night to satisfy light discipline needs, otherwise they’re just as fucked

I’m not even gonna touch the full-face display because it’s self-evidently stupid

This is just Defense VC IVAS but somehow worse

By their own admission to stabilize the display they had to go with a helmet suspension that takes out a lot of deliberate rotational freedom so as not to transfer too much force to the neck